@adiwan
Germany
http://adiwan.deviantart.comMaking some pony art.
Computer science student.
Retro gamer.
Linux user.
Loves epic soundtracks.
Just a typical Geek/Nerd who loves new things.
Mod of http://askthevetpony.tumblr.com
Main tumblr http://adiwan.tumblr.com
adiwan (adiwan)
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Finished watching "Dead End Paranormal Park". It was mostly harmless. Not groundbreaking but it is "just a cartoon". LGBTQ representation aside it the show is unfocused and the episodes themselves are lacking the energy to stand on their own. The pace accelerated towards the end but didn't manage to fully have any lasting impact as a whole.
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Watched the first two episodes of "Dead End Paranormal Park" on Netflix and it didn't impress me. The show lacks the energy and snappiness to appear to be fun. The characters and voice acting are quite dull. There is a looming feeling that it is a soulless Gravity Falls rip-off. Sure it is a different setting but I cannot get rid off that impression.
about 6 days ago from web -
@scribus For a few reasons I also miss my Asus EEEPC 1000H keyboard. It was tiny but usable. It made me appreciate mapping Home, End, PgUp, and PgDwn to the arrow keys using the Fn Key. It made me like it so much that I remapped the "previous track", "next track", "play/pause", and "stop" buttons on the X201 keyboard to those in Linux.
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Thinking about retiring my Thinkpad x201. I LOVE the keyboard but it makes problems. When I hit the power button to turn it on, there is a 50:50 chance that the screen is blank and does nothing. It caused me some bigger problems with sleep mode and did the exact same thing on wake-up. Only turning the laptop completely off and on again helps, but on sleep mode all RAM content is gone. Hibernation is fine but it takes longer as a normal boot.
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@zeldatra Apple loves to Stockholm-syndrome their customers. Upgrading the hardware or even repair? No way! Soldered storage? Sure! Using slightly different chips and software-locking hardware components! Of course! Installing unauthorized software on the iPhone? HELL NO. No filthy hands, hardware or software should taint it.
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Big corporations use their power to suppress everything that can threaten their business. Microsoft famously adopts free and open standards and alter them such that they are dominating them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
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I just saw someone abbreviating "Daily Active Users" as DAU, that made me chuckle. In tech circles in Germany "DAU" is known as "Dümmster anzunehmender User", which means literally translated "stupidest assumed user".
about 10 days ago from web -
@scribus Whenever I look up for something to know how it works I almost exclusively find videos that only scratch the surface of the thing and mostly those videos end up with "Now you know how it works". Tutorials are also a bane in my existence where the tutorial is more about everything else but the topic it tutorials about (including 1/3 of the video dedicating to personal banana of the video creator and a good portion to social media call to action blah blah).
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@scribus There is a sideloadable program "Heroic Game Launcher" that is a layer for the GOG and Epic store that allows to install their games with convenience.
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Repairing the remote control for my parents. It has a small broken tab for the battery compartment where the latch of the door grabs into. I'm remodeling it using the good old trick with superglue (Cyanoacrylate) and baking powder. I let it dry and harden for a while and then cut off everything with a knife that is preventing to close it properly. Tedious but better than to model and 3d print the whole thing.
about 14 days ago from web -
I'm debating with myself if I should buy and play TUNIC https://store.steampowered.com/app/553420/TUNIC/ . And if I do, should I buy it from GOG or Steam?
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@scribus Occasionally my knees pop loudly as well. Not today, but there were days when walking up the stairs made of stone sound like they are wooden.
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This morning I startled the woman at the baker's shop. It was a few minutes after opening and nobody was lining up. The woman was preparing the coffee machine and I walked to the counter. I wasn't particularly sneaky. I mean I wasn't quiet on purpose. When I said "hello" she jumped up as if I wanted to rob this place. Not that extreme but it was a big reaction.
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@zeldatra Haven't wasted a thought on that damn pony generator trash in a long time. It creates a shudder along my spine when I remember the flood of OCs coming through the DeviantArt groups I followed.
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@scribus He did not do that much of research and neglected eating enough mushrooms (doesn't like them much) and neglected using supplements.
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@zeldatra Haha. True. It has also less chance of malnutrition as it gets what it needs. A friend of mine eats exclusively vegetarian and vegan and had recently a case of Vitamin B12 deficiency with his body half paralyzed.
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My D&D group adopted a Xorn, a gem-eating monster, and named it Ruby. We bought some Xorns to smuggle them to a mine in order to sell them there but we kept one, as my character was good enough in animal handling that it got tamed.
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I hate it soo much that I cannot minimize Thunderbird to tray. I also hate it that the window name (or icon) doesn't show that a new mail is in the inbox.
about 22 days ago from web -
I need to use Thunderbird for a while until it receives a bugfix.
about 22 days ago from web -
I'm totally annoyed that my beloved email program KMail has huge problems with GMail IMAP. Google disabled the plain authentification method (username + password) and only offers its OAuth method. For some reason it kinda works and kinda does not. I get over the day dozens unnecessary authentification requests. I can fetch mail for 10minutes - 1 hour and have to reauthenticate it again.
about 22 days ago from web -
People without perspective for a good future and without a safety net tend to behave reckless.
about 23 days ago from web -
Also the desperation that causes the violent behavior in the first place should be addressed in the same way.
about 23 days ago from web -
I know it's a little more nuanced and a very loud minority is blocking any progress to regulate weapons but on the outside it ain't looking good.
about 23 days ago from web -
The US surely do like guns. They surely do like using those. They surely cannot get enough of them in order to use those too.
about 23 days ago from web -
I bought some cheap wooden spatulas and created some different shapes with my bandsaw in order to enhance them. I don't want to use anything metallic with my Teflon coated pans. The default shape is too rectangular for scraping the walls of the pan. It doesn't get very well into the rounded corner. So far I'm quite satisfied with the results. Even when not, each spatula was only 1.50€.
about a month ago from web -
Today is Father's Day in Germany. As usual drunk men are roaming the streets. Today I saw two guys on one e-scooter driving on the bike path. They hit the curb and almost face-planted.
about a month ago from web -
Today we celebrate a day with towels because a funny author died on a treadmill.
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OMG PowerShell scripts have the worst syntax
